Personnel

The Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group (ABERG) is a team of 38 researchers from 12 universities dedicated to understanding biodiversity distribution and ecosystem function in the Peruvian Andes. Combining modern and paleoecology, climate science, ecosystem and distributional ecology, we are gaining a comprehensive understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem function in time and space, and the ongoing effects of climate and anthropogenic change.

There are currently 38 senior biologists (9 PIs, 17 postdocs and Peruvian researchers, and 12 graduate students) working on the projects within the research group, with the current involvement of an additional 33 Peruvian biologists and undergraduates .

Excluding courses we have directly trained 162 students and young researchers since 2003, 118 of whom were Latin American, 110 of those Peruvians. Thirteen have come to the US for graduate training with the PIs and Senior Personnel on this grant, and are key partners and will be independent scientists on the project. We have offered and participated in courses, including a NSF-Funded PIRE-PASI course in 2011 centered on our study, and over 120 undergraduates brought from Wake Forest University and Peruvian institutions for a 21 to 28 day intensive field courses.

A list of Peruvian students and scientists working for ABERG is found below the pictures.